Method of making boxes and covers.



H. LEIMAN.

METHOD OF MAKING BOXES AND COVERS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 12, 1915.

1,174,876. Patented Mar. 7,1916.

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METHOD OF MAKlNG BOXES AND COVERS.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJZ. 1915.

1,174,876. F Patented Mar.7,1 916.

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gitu rnega 45 tional view showing the two heads in posi- HENRY LEIMAN, OF

TAMPA, FLORIDA.

METHOD or MAKING BOXES nn oovEns.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY LEIMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tampa, in the county of Hillsborough and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Boxes and Covers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to paper manufactures. and more especially to box machines; and the object of the same is to produce an improved method for making boxes which areprefe-rably mostly of paper or paper stock, although the same method may be employed if certain parts of the boxes are of wood as will be explained;

'It has been common heretofore to wind a strip around and cement it to the edges of two heads so as to produce a cylindrical container, and meanwhile possibly to sever the wall of the container to divide it into a box proper or body and a cover. Also means have been provided for making a box and its cover, attaching the lower portion of the cover-skirt to the wall of the box-body, and then severing this portion from the upper portion while the parts were assembled, and

' on three or possibly all sides of the box.

But care had to be taken that the cutting knife did not extend through the wall of' the box-body nor cut into the same or the wrapper or cover upon itsout'er face. My present invention comprises these main steps, carried out in detail in a novel way.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in a method involving certain novel features as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of one .of' the heads with the sheet wound partially about the head showing the first step in my method; Fig. 2' is a section relative to the sheet and the cover partly slitted away from the body thus illustrating the'second step. Fig. 3 shows in section the body and cover slightly removed therefrom with the lining material being slipped into place by the third step. Fig. 4 -shows in perspective the body already lined and the cover spaced slightly therefrom, ready to be borne down as required in the fourth step. Fig. -5 illustrates the result of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 12,

from the box.

Patented Mar.

1915. Serial No.45,240.

the fifth step. It shows in perspective the box practically completed with the covering sheet in position and secured except at the corners. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view through the completed box. Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view through the completed box taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

The method of producing the improved box which forms the subject-matter of this application contemplates the use of two heads 10 and 11 similar in all respects hav lng rabbets 12 formed about their peripherles, and a sheet 13 having overlapped edges as indicated at 14:. The sheet 13 is pasted or cemented upon the rabbets of both the heads 10 and 11 to produce the wall shown in secticn in Fig. 2, after which :a slit 15 is cut along the dotted line 16 to sever a portion as shown at Figs. 3 and 1. The portion being removed, a lining 17 is slipped into the body of the box, such lining being so proportioned that its edges abut as shown at 18.

As the present box is designed for packaging and marketing cigars, it is desirable that the ends or heads 10 and 11 and the lining 17 be composed of such wood as usually employed for packaging cigars, for instance, as cedar. The lining 17 is slidably inserted to touch the bottom head 10, but is longer than the body wall to form a neck 19 which extends above the upper edge of the body wall as shown more particularly at Fig. 1. As the skirt of the cover is a part of the original sheet 13 it is obvious that the lining 17 fitting snugly within the body of the box will also lit snugly within the cover skirt,causing the upper edge of the body to form a flange to hold such cover in positionthe.relation of the body, flange and cover being shown 7. more particularly at Fig. 1.

The box having been filled with the. intended material, as with cigars, an outer wrapper 20 is pasted about the box and cover, thereby uniting the box and cover to prevent the accidental removal of the cover Before Winding the sheet 20 about the box a thread 21 is wound in the crack between the meeting edgesof the cover skirt and the body wall, and the covering sheet 20 pasted over such thread with the end extending outwardly as shown at Fig. 5. lVhen the box is to be opened the end of the thread is pulled outwardly and around the box, thereby cutting the sheet20 and releasing the cover from the box. With the placing of revenue stamps or the like over the dividing line between thecover and the box they will likewise be severed by the use of the thread 21 the same as cutting the sheet 20.

tion that the upper head or top 11 is o1ni ttedmay thereforev be said to consist in winding the sheet 13 around and cementing it to the edges of the heads, and preferably cementing its ends in the rabbet 12 thereof.

The second step consists in cutting completely through the upright wall of the cylindrical container thus formed, on the line 15, and by any suitable knife or other means which follows the dotted line 16; and this step is well shown inrFig. 2.

The third step consists in slipping the lining 17 into the open upper end of the box body as seen in Figure 8. This lining is preferably of wood as stated, and its edges come together on the line 18. At this time .it is of a size to fit closely within the wall v13 of the box body, and itis by preference of greater height than said wall as shown. It may be pushed down to about the point shown in this view, and left'there.

The fourth step shown in Fig. 4 consists in putting the cover into position above the lining as it was left in Fig. 3, and pushing it downward thereon.

A part of the fifth step (whose completed article is'shown in Fig. 5) consists in laying the thread or cord on the shoulder formed between the upper edge of the body-wall 13 and the outer face of the projecting portion or neck 19 of the lining, and this step will doubtless occur before the cover is put in position as seen in Fig. 4:. Then when the cover is borne downward the cord is carriedwith it.

The fifth step whose results are-seen 1n "Fig. 5, consists in applying and pasting the wrapping paper 20 in placeoutside the boxwall and cover-skirt, and over the string or cord, leaving the extremity of thelatterpro jecting as already described.- The finished article then has the appearance best seen in the sectional views Figs. 6 and 7, and the box is opened as already explained.

I amjnot aware that the lining has been slipped into place during the method of making ab-ox of this character, and the result 'of this step of my method is that the lining may be made as tall as desired. If it is of such size that'it' projects above the body-wall the same distance as the vertical dimension of the cover-skirt. it will contact with both heads in the finished'article as seen in Fig. 5. If the projecting portion or neck 19 were not so tall, the result would then be that the upper end of this neck would contact-within the top- 11 when the above described. ,If the lining were taller than shown in Fig.3, the cover-skirt would I v not comedown onto the upper edgeof the The first step of my improved method fairly well shown in Fig. 1 with the excepedges will abut on the line 18, but this is not important. As to its materiahbe'can of course select such material and such grade of stock :as 1s desirable in the box being made, according to the uses to which said box is to be put. In anv event, the cutting of the slit 15 along the dotted-line 16 occurs at a time when there is nolining within the box, and therefore it is quite obvious that the lining is not injured, extreme care need .i

not be taken in doing the, cutting, and the lining might even be of metal as my method avoids injury to the cutting device.

' When the box is constructed in the preferred manner, that is-to say with the outer 2 box and wrapper substantially non-absorbent and impervious to moisture while the lining composed of a veneer of red cedar is absorbent. a function is provided which-is novel in this construction.

are placed in the package in a moist condition, and it is desirable to malntain the cigars 1n amoist condition but not in a con- The function is '1 that in the packaging of cigars the cigars dition of such moistureas'will mold or decay. The cedar veneer lining being absorbent absorbs from the freshcigarsthe moisture given off and by reason of the non-.ab V

sorbent and impervious condition of the pores until through thelapse of time the cigars have become somewhat dry when the cedar gives off its moisture retaining the cigars in moist and merchantable'condition outer covering retains such moisture in its 2' for a lon space of time,the action-being the T1 same as the action of a humidor. The in- 1t1al taking up of the moisture of the cigars reduces the moisture to such a degree that the cigars do not mold or decayandithe later giving off of such moisture retains'the 5 7 p c gars in the requireddegreeof moisture. While the present invention is notglimited to the construction of a box "with a'lnonabsorbent and impervious exterior and-absorbent interior lining, the prefe'rredform'is 5 of this nature.

I claim The herein described method of making boxes consisting in first. winding a'flsheet around and attaching it to the edges of the box-heads and connecting its own edges with each other, next cutting through the Wall wrapper sheet to the outer faces of said skirt 10 thus produced and on a line parallel with and Wall, all as hereinbefore set forth.

the uppermost head so as to separate the box In testimony whereof I afiix my signature body from the cover, next bending a flexible in presence of witnesses.

lining until its edges contact with each other HENRY LEIMAN. and inserting it Within the body-wall, next Witnesses:

applying the cover to the top of said lining W. B. VVILLIAMSoN,

and pushing the latter downward, and ROLAND A. WILSON,

finally applying and securing an outer S. M. HANES.

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